“I was just glad to get the Grammy. I didn't know what the thing was. It's the honor what I loved.” KnowsArtMusicHonorMusicianGladPerformingPerforming ArtsGrammy Author:Elizabeth Cotten
“When Pixies broke up in 1993, I gave up the drums for the longest time. I hadn't been doing a lot, but I ended up attending a magic convention that initially got me interested. I took classes, bought videos, and practiced relentlessly. I began performing at parties and soon realized that developing an on-stage routine is often tougher than being a musician. I focused my act on magic that incorporated as much science as it did entertainment, which was really satisfying for me.” PartyClassMagicStageMusicianEntertainmentFocusedVideoDevelopingBrokePerformingRoutineSatisfyingConventionsGave UpAttendingBroke UpPixies Author:David Lovering
“There are any number of models artists can use to profit off of their talent and artistry. It is not up to the state to protect them from competition. Musicians can obviously get paid for performing and having their music copied and "pirated" helps them in this respect by making them more well known, more popular.” WellsStatesHelpingUseArtistNumbersKnownTalentProtectMusicianModelsPaidCompetitionProfitPerformingWell KnownArtistry Author:Stephan Kinsella
“It is a great pleasure to be performing with a big band. Those people took part in a group that played the music from the Kino Kultura album i.e. the soundtrack music I've been doing. It is difficult to organise them all and to have those people for a certain date since they all have their own obligations and arrangements. It is a great privilege to gather all those musicians at one place, especially these that I work with, since they perform regularly abroad, at weddings or are working somewhere else.” PeopleBigsCertainDifficultPleasureGroupsBandMusicianPrivilegeAlbumsObligationPerformingArrangementsSomewhere ElseSoundtracks Author:Vlatko Stefanovski
“You can choose not to be a performing musician. You can choose to just be a recording artist. But then you run into the problem of trying to earn a living and balancing the time that you spend working on your creative efforts to just getting the bills paid. You can go off the grid and live in a cabin and make whatever art you want and also provide all the sustenance you need and not interact with anybody else.” WantNeedsTryingArtProblemRunningArtistEffortCreativeMusicianPaidBillsPerformingSustenanceCabinsGrids Author:Mirah
“I was a very bad musician. I was the world's worst guitar player, so when I was performing solo with a guitar, I had to keep things very simple.” WorldSimplePlayerWorstMusicianGuitarPerformingSoloGuitar Player Author:Loren Mazzacane Connors
“Even though I was performing all the time as an actress and I was doing all of these plays as a kid, there's a vulnerability about being a musician that you don't get [when] you perform somebody else's work.” PlayKidsMusicianActressesPerformingVulnerability Author:Lola Kirke
“Performing as a musician is a lot different than performing as an actor. As an actor, you can hide behind the character in the play, and there's a director and other actors. When you're a musician, you're right there. It's sort of like being a comedian. You're giving the audience in real time something authentic from yourself. As an actor, my bullshit meter was going off like crazy at my first attempts to find my own rock star.” GivingDifferentRealCharacterAudienceCrazyMusicianComedianPerformingBullshitRock Star Author:Billy Crudup
“My abject hatred of actors and the acting world. I went to college as an actor, and halfway through, I switched to playwriting and directing. Then I spent a couple years working in publishing, doing some freelance journalism for The Village Voice and Musician magazine. I thought my life was going to be as a writer, but then I realized I missed performing, so I got into comedy. It was a nice combination of things I was sort of good at. I was a pretty good writer and a decent actor, but I didn't really like acting, and I didn't have the discipline to be a writer.” WorldActingComedyNiceCollegeCoupleDisciplineMusicianHatredI RealizedJournalismPerformingDecentPublishingHalfway Author:Christian Finnegan
“I only performed a song so I could not write an essay. I just enjoyed being around bands, and around musicians, and, I didn't want to be the girl who followed the band around. I love singing, I love performing, but it's never been this goal.” WritingSongGirlGoalMusicianSingingPerformingEssays Author:Caitlin Rose
“I am a musician and am so thankful for that. I have no experience of war. But I find a similarity between performing music onstage and acting - a reality of emotion.” WarRealityActingEmotionMusicianPerformingSimilarity Author:Miyavi
“My job of being a musician in a recording studio has nothing to do with being a musician being on tour performing.” JobsMusicianStudiosPerformingRecording StudioRecording Music Author:Moby